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   
               
⁄ ₡               
⁸    
. ₡  
    
E-joice heavenly powers! Sing choirs of angels! Ex-ult all cre-a-tion a-round God’s Throne. Jesus
         ₍                
. ₡       
       ffi . ₡ ₆             ₎      ⁄ ₍       ⁸  . ₍ 
Christ Our King is ris-en. Sound the trum-pet of sal-va- tion. Re-joice, O Earth, in shi-ning splen-dor, ra-

              .  ₡         ₍    ffi  . ₡ ₆          ₎
diant in the Bright-ness of your King! Christ has conquered! Glo-ry fills you! Dark-ness van-ish-es for-ev-er!

          ⁄  ₍     ⁸ . ₡           ⁸ . ₎     ffi   
Re-joice, O Mo-ther Church! Ex-ult in glo- ry! The Ris-en Sa-vior shines up-on you. Let this place re-sound,

  . ₡                   
with joy, Ech-o-ing the might-y song of all God’s peo-ple.

    .           .

Lift up your hearts. We lift them up to the Lord.

           ffi    .                .               
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right to give him thanks and praise.

    ⁄ ₍     ⁄  ⁄           . ₡            ⁄ ₍     
It is tru-ly right that with full hearts and minds and voic-es we should praise the un-seen God, the all-

      . ₍     . ₍     ffi    . ₎    ⁄              . ₡  
pow-er-ful Fa-ther, and his on-ly Son, our Lord Je-sus Christ. For Christ has ran-somed us with his blood, and

   ⁄          .₍   ffi     . ₎         . ₡         
paid for us the price of A-dam’s sin to our E-ter-nal Fa-ther! This is our Pass-ov-er Feast, when Christ, the true

    . ₡     . ₍            ffi    . ₎    . ₍         
Lamb, is slain, whose blood con-se-crates the homes of all be-lieve-ers. This is the night, when first you saved

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    . ₡                      . ₡             ffi     . ₎
our fathers, you freed the peo-ple of Is-ra-el from their slav-e-ry and led them dry-shod through the Sea.

 ⁄     . ₍                      . ₎  ⁄    .         
This is the night when the pil-lar of fire de-stroyed the dark-ness of sin! This is the night when Chris-

      ⁄ ₍                    . ₡                
-tians ev-‘ry- where, washed clean of sin and freed from all de-file-ment, are re-stored to grace and grow to-

      . ₎  ⁸    .          ⁄           . ₡         
-geth-er in ho-li-ness. This is the night, when Je-sus Christ broke the chains of death and rose tri-umph-ant

ffi    . ₎     ⁄             . ₍          ffi      . ₎   ⁄₍  
From the grave. What good would life have been to us had Christ not come as our Re-deem-er? Fa-ther, how

        . ₡              . ₍       ⁄ ₍      ffi   
won-der-ful your care for us. How bound-less your mer-ci-ful love. To ran-som a slave, you gave a-way your

. ₎ 
Son.

⁸   . ₍         . ₡         . ₍       . ₎      
O Happy Fault, O nec-es-sar-y sin of A-dam, which gained for us so great a Re-deem-er. Most Bless-ed

 .  .  ₍     ⁄ ₡              . ₎           . ₡     
Of all nights, cho-sen by God to see Christ ris-ing from the dead! Of this night Scrip-ture says: The

         ⁄ ₍         ffi    . ₎          .    ‥   
Night will be clear as day: it will be-come my light, my joy. The power of this holy night dis-pels all

.₍        ⁄ ₍        . ₍     ffi    . ₡      . ₍    
Evil, wash-es guilt a-way, re-stores lost in-no-cence, brings mourn-ers joy; it casts out ha-tred, brings us

. ₍       ffi     . ₎  ⁄      .  ₍            .  ₍     
Peace, and hum-bles earth-ly pride. Night Truly Bless-ed when Heav-en is wed-ded to Earth, and man is

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   ffi     . ₎                     
Re-con-ciled with God.

  ⁄ ₍              . ₍                 ⁄ ₍    
There-fore, Heav-en-ly Fa-ther, in the joy of this night, re-ceive our ev-ening sac-ri-fice of praise, your

   ffi      . ₎         . ₍ ⁄  
Church’s sol-emn off-er-ing. Ac-cept this Eas-ter can-dle, a flame

      .   ₍    ⁄              . ₎            
di-vid-ed but un-dimmed, a pil-lar of fire that glows to the hon-or of God. Let it min-gle with the lights

   . ₍              ₡   .         . ₎           
of heav-en and con-tin-ue brave-ly burn-ing to dis-pel the dark-ness of this night. May the Morning

  ₍      . ₡      ffi      . ₎                 . ₍  
Star, which nev-er sets, find this flame still burn-ing. CHRIST that MORN-ING STAR,

                            . ₍              
Who came back from the dead and shed peace-ful light on all man-kind, your SON, who lives and reigns

      .    ffi,.  

for-ev-er and ev-er. A-MEN.